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Grove Press Atlantic Monthly Press Black Cat The Mysterious Press Granta Fall 201 1 NOW AVAILABLE Complete and updated coverage by The New York Times about WikiLeaks and their controversial release of diplomatic cables and war logs OPEN SECRETS WikiLeaks, War, and American Diplomacy The New York Times Introduction by Bill Keller • Essential, unparalleled coverage A New York Times Best Seller from the expert writers at The New York Times on the hundreds he controversial antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks, led by Julian of thousands of confidential Assange, made headlines around the world when it released hundreds of documents revealed by WikiLeaks thousands of classified U.S. government documents in 2010. Allowed • Open Secrets also contains a T fascinating selection of original advance access, The New York Times sorted, searched, and analyzed these secret cables and war logs archives, placed them in context, and played a crucial role in breaking the WikiLeaks story. • online promotion at Open Secrets, originally published as an e-book, is the essential collection www.nytimes.com/opensecrets of the Times’s expert reporting and analysis, as well as the definitive chronicle of the documents’ release and the controversy that ensued. An introduction by Times executive editor, Bill Keller, details the paper’s cloak-and-dagger “We may look back at the war logs as relationship with a difficult source. Extended profiles of Assange and Bradley a herald of the end of America’s Manning, the Army private suspected of being his source, offer keen insight engagement in Afghanistan, just as into the main players. Collected news stories offer a broad and deep view into the Pentagon Papers are now a Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the messy challenges facing American power milestone in our slo-mo exit from in Europe, Russia, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Also included are edito- Vietnam.”—Frank Rich rials from the Times; opinion columns by Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd, and others, and original essays on what the fracas has revealed about American diplomacy and government security. Open Secrets also contains a fascinating selection of original cables and war logs, offering readers an unvarnished look at diplomacy in action. $16.95 “Thoughtful analysis of one of the largest leaks of classified information 6 x 9, 544 pp. in history—how it happened, what the secret documents say, and what it History 978-0-8021-4576-5 all means. The New York Times brings welcome order to the chaos of World rights: Grove Press the hundreds of thousands U.S. government documents released last year. Rights sold: HarperCollins (Canada) All other rights: The New York Times . An important book that gives coherence to a massive data dump.” (tel.: 212-556-1362) —Kirkus Reviews Carton quantity: 28 Export: WxC ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS HARDCOVERS SEPTEMBER In her first novel since winning the National Book Award for The News from Paraguay, Lily Tuck delivers an elegant tour-de-force portrait of a forty-three-year marriage. I MARRIED YOU FOR HAPPINESS A Novel Lily Tuck • Tuck won the National Book Award JULIE THAYER for The News from Paraguay • Siam was a PEN/Faulkner Award hroughout Lily Tuck’s wide-ranging and award-winning career, she has finalist been praised by critics for her crisp, lean language and her sensuous • Tuck’s short stories have appeared T explorations of exotic locales and complex psychologies. From Siam to in The New Yorker, The Paris Paraguay and beyond, Tuck inspires her readers to travel into unfamiliar Review, The Antioch Review, and the O. Henry Prize Stories realms. Her newest novel is no exception. In I Married You for Happiness, mar- anthology riage, mathematics, and memory coalesce to create her most accessible, riveting, and deeply moving book yet. • prepublication reading copies “His hand is growing cold, still she holds it,” is how this story of a mar- available riage begins. The tale unfolds over a single night, while Nina sits at the bedside • 5-city tour of her husband, Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for (Boston • New York City • Washington, D.C. her lonely vigil. Too shocked yet to grieve, she lets herself remember the defin- • Chicago • Toronto) ing moments of their long marriage, beginning with their first meeting in • major review coverage Paris. She is an artist, he a highly accomplished mathematician—it was a colli- • IndieBound bookseller outreach sion of two different worlds that merged to form an intricate and passionate • reading group guide available love. As the reader is drawn through select memories—real and imagined—of online at www.groveatlantic.com events that occurred in places as distant and disparate as France, Wisconsin, • newsletter cooperative advertising Hong Kong, Mexico, and California, Tuck reveals the most private intimacies, available dark secrets, and overwhelming joys that shaped the lives of Nina and Philip. Slender, powerful, and utterly engaging, I Married You for Happiness is not only a moving elegy to a man and a marriage, but also a meditation on the theory of probability and how chance can affect both a life and one’s consider- $24.00 ation of the possibility of an afterlife. hardcover 5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 208 pp. Praise for Lily Tuck: Fiction (FIC019000) 978-0-8021-1991-9 “A storyteller who spellbinds.” —The New York Review of Books World rights: Atlantic Monthly Press Rights sold: HarperCollins (Canada) All other rights: Georges Borchardt Inc. “Restraint is a hallmark of Tuck’s writing. It has violence, pain, and vivid (tel.: 212-753-5785) scenes, but her narrators, even when speaking in the first person, have a Carton quantity: 36 coolness, like someone in a balloon floating over a landscape, looking Export: USO Residence: New York City down with high-powered binoculars.” —The Boston Globe 2 Excerpt from I MARRIED YOU FOR HAPPINESS His hand is growing cold, still she holds it. Sitting at his bedside, she does not cry. From time to time, she lays her cheek against his, taking slight comfort in the rough bristle of unshaved hair, and she speaks to him a little. I love you, she tells him. I always will. Je t’aime, she says. Rain is predicted for tonight and, outside, she hears the wind rise. It blows through the branches of the oak trees and she hears a shutter bang against the side of the house, then bang again. She must remember to ask him to fix it—no, she remembers. A car drives by, the radio is on loud. A heavy metal song, she cannot make out the words. Teenagers. How little they know, how little they suspect what life has in store for them—or death. They may be drunk or stoned. She imagines the clouds racing in the night sky half hiding the stars as the car careens down the dirt road, scattering stones behind it like gunshot. A yell. A rolled down window and a hurled beer can for her to pick up in the morning. LILY TUCK is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, The Woman Who Walked on Water, Siam, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and The News from Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award. PrAisE For The NeWs From ParaguaY: “A tense, elegant novel . Paraguay materializes as Tuck’s characters do, imperceptibly, until the sounds, smells, and colors of the country saturate the pages.”—The BosToN gloBe “Tuck is no ordinary novelist . and The News from Paraguay is an unforgettable masterpiece.”—seaTTle PosT-INTellIgeNCer “Vivid, intriguing . Tuck brings to life the lush, sensual, and brutal world of nineteenth-century Paraguay.”—eNTerTaINmeNT WeeklY “A portrait of a lost place and time . The book’s exotic atmosphere becomes the main character, and it’s a highly engaging one. At times, it is as charming and beguiling as a magician.”—saN FraNCIsCo ChroNICle “Compelling . The stuff that good fiction is made of: complex characters and an intricate narrative.”—NeWsDaY 3 SEPTEMBER From the author of the New York Times best seller Matterhorn, which has sold over 250,000 copies, What It Is Like to Go to War is a powerful nonfiction book about the experience of combat and how inadequately we prepare our young men and women for the psychological and spiritual stresses of war. WHAT IT IS LIKE TO GO TO WAR Karl Marlantes ES T • prepublication reading copies available • 14-city tour DEVON MARLAN (Boston • New York City • Philadelphia • Washington, D.C. • raleigh/Durham/Chapel n 1969, at the age of twenty-two, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the hill • Chicago • milwaukee • madison • minneapolis/st. Paul • kansas City • Denver highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced second lieutenant in com- • san Francisco • Portland • seattle) i mand of a platoon of forty Marines who would live or die by his decisions. • NPr and talk-radio-phoner Marlantes was a bright young man who was well trained for the task at hand campaign but, as he was to discover, far from mentally prepared for what he was about to • op-eds at publication experience. In his thirteen-month tour he saw intense combat. He killed the • major review coverage enemy and he watched friends die. Marlantes survived, but like many of his • target military press and media brothers in arms, he has spent the last forty years dealing with his experiences. • newsletter cooperative advertising In What It Is Like to Go to War, Marlantes takes a deeply personal and can- available did look at the experience and ordeal of combat, critically examining how we • also available as a Blackstone might better prepare our young soldiers for war. War is as old as humankind, audiobook but in the past, warriors were prepared for battle by ritual, religion, and litera- ture—which also helped bring them home.